Use in Literature
Mark Twain defined an expert as "an ordinary fellow from another town". Jesus is even quoted as saying "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown." Mark 6:4. Will Rogers described an expert as "A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase." Danish scientist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr defined an expert as "A person that has made every possible mistake within his or her field."
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“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)